Climatology and Meteorology Resources

Choose one of the topics below:

• Atmospheric Chemistry and Composition

• Current Weather Conditions & Maps

• Data Resources

• Ocean Data

• Physical Geography Resource Page

• Reference Material and Publications

• UW-SP Geography/Geology Education Page: More Educational Resources related to Weather and Climate

• Weather and Climate Web Links & Related Information Servers

Atmospheric Chemistry and Composition

Carbon Dioxide

• Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center - Links to reports and data concerning atmospheric carbon dioxide. Access to "Trends: A compendium of Data on Global Change"

• NOAA OACES CO₂ Group - Information about sources and sinks of carbon dioxide in th eocean. The group collects data on both atmospheric and oceanic carbon dioxide.

• Global Fossil Fuel Emissions: 1860-1989 - Link to Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center FTP directory.

• Global, Regional and National Fossil Carbon Emissions: 1950-1990 - Link to Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center FTP directory

Methane

• Resources to come

Ozone

• Global Ozone Variations, 1958-1986 - Link to Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center FTP directory

• Meteor-3 TOMS Data - Link to Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center FTP directory

• Nimbus-7 TOMS Data - Link to Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center FTP directory

Particulates

• Lamb's Dust Veil Index, 1500-1983 - Link to Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center FTP directory

Solar Radiation

• NASA Solar Images - Current solar images from NASA GSFC

Current Weather Conditions & Maps

Global

• Weather and Global Monitoring from Australian Natl. University - Links to current Australian, Antarctic, and global weather; El Nino and Australia; climatology resources and links; additional links to earth science and astronomy resources.

• Atlas of Global Instrumental Climate Data - FTP directory at CDIAC included maps of monthly, seasonal, annual temperature, precipitation, pressure, and 500mb heights.

• NOAA Climate Prediction Center - Longrange climate outlooks; SST prediction; ENSO Advisory; African Desk Home Page

United States

• EarthWatch 3-D weather visualization

• The Daily Planet Univ. of Illinois - Links to weather forecasts and imagery; Guide to Meteorology; The Weather Visualizer. 

• Ohio State Atmospheric Science - current and forecast model data.

• Penn State Weather Statistics - Maps of cloud cover, precipitation, snow cover, temperature, temperature advection, pressure, and more.

• Real-Time MM5 Homepage - real-time mesoscale model weather forecast

• National Weather Service:

  • Home Page

  • Current Weather and Products - Links to current forecasts, maps, aviation weather, hurricane and tropical warnings; U.S. weather bulletins; hydrologic information; fire weather; snow cover; marine products; GOES imagery; realtime buoy observations; Great Lakes information.

• National Warnings Area (NOAA) Access to all available warnings for the United States. 

• NOAA Weather Page - Links to regional resources

• The High and Low Pressure Homepage - (Weatherplotter) extensive set of links to weather forecasts

• Univ. of Wisconsin NMS Home PageVIS - 5D data sets and GIF images.

• The Storm Prediction Center (SPC) - Severe storm statistics, tornaodo and thunderstorm watches and warnings; online publications; SPC software.

Data Resources (Weather and Climate)

Global

• Air Temperatures -- Surface, Troposphere, Stratosphere: 1958-1992 - Link to Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center FTP directory

• Air Temperature (Global and Hemispheric): 1854-1991Graph from UW-Madison Geography

• Air Temperature (Global and Hemispheric): 1854-1991 - Link to Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center FTP directory

• Air Temperature (Global Grid Point ): 1851-1988 (5 by 10 degree grid) - Link to Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center FTP directory

• Air Temperature - Monthly Anomalies 1900 - 1993

• Global Climate Perspectives Systems (Datasets: GFDL Global Climate Model 100 Year Run, Global Max. - Min. Temperature, Climate Anomalies)

• Global Historical Climatology Network Monthly Temperature, Precipitation, Pressure

• Historical Global Extremes of Temperature and Precipitation (NCDC)  

• LDEO Climate Data Catalog

• NOAA Climate Prediction Products

• Paleoclimate Data Ice Cores, Tree Rings, Sea Cores, etc.

• Sea Surface Temperature (Mean)

• Sea Surface Temperatures

• Sensitive Map of World Climate Regions

• Space Science Environment Center (NOAA) - Space weather; real time solar wind data; solar images; aurora activity;

• SSEC Real time Data - Real time GOES 8 and 9, composite sea surface, forecast satellite and CIMSS product imagery from the UW- Madison Space Science and Engineering Center

• WorldClimate.com 85,000 records of world climate data (historical weather averages)

• World-wide Daily Surface Meteorological Data

North America

• Clickable Map of US States Climate page - create average anomaly, mean, ranking plots or maps of U.S. climate division temperature and precipitation for the time period of 1895 through 1997.

• Climatic Extremes and Weather Events (NCDC) Weather and climate extremes, weather disasters, El Nino/La Nina, US local storm reports. 

• Midwestern Climate Center

• U.S. Drought Palmer Index by Division or State from National Climate Data Center

• U.S. Historical Climatology Network Monthly Temperature and Precipitation: 1900 - 1987

• U.S. Monthly Sunshine and Cloud: 1900-1987 - Link to Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center FTP directory

• U.S. Wind Statistics (Penn State) Current wind statistics (sustained wind, max. gust, etc. Regional maps.

Ocean Data

• COADS Monthly Data Air and SST, Wind, Pressure, Humidity

• Levitus Annual Data Ocean T, Salinity, Oxygen

• Global Ocean Heat Budget Data (Monthly)

Reference Material and Publications

General Topics

Air Pollution

• Air Pollution Information

Climate Change

• NASA Facts: Volcanoes and Climate

El Niño

• El Niño Instructional Module from the Weather World 2010 project.

• ENSO Monitor - images of SST anomalies; access to data libraries.

• Several Bibliographies on the topic of El Niño

Meteorology

• Federal Meteorological Handbook -1 Table of Contents [October 1995]

• Weather World 2010 project Online guides, current weather, educational materials. (Univ. of Ill. - Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences)

• Weather Hotlist

• WebWeather

• weather guide Glossary - NOAA

• Cloud Types (COVIS)

• Cloud Gallery

• FSU - Explores: Weather

• Wind Chill Chart

• Heat Index Chart

Ozone Depletion

• Ozone Depletion issue and NOAA

Severe Weather

• Storm Chaser Homepage

• Storm Encyclopedia (Weather Channel) information on flooding, heat waves, hurricanes, winter storms, etc.

• The Tornado Project Online (The Tornado Project) Information about storm chasing, tornado stories and oddities, myths.

• Tornado Simulation

• Tropical Cyclones page (Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies UW-Madison) Images, video and analysis of tropical cyclones.

• The Hurricane Page, Historical Storm tracks

Web Links and Information Servers

• Climate and related sites

• National Climatic Data Center

• National Geophysical Data Center

• Climate Diagnostics Center

• U.S. Geological Survey

• Department of Energy

• NASA Info by Subject

• Snow Cover Maps and Data (NOHRSC)

• East Anglia Home Page Oceanography, Meteorology, Climatology

• Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

• Sea Grant Institute

• EROS Data Center Catalog (Telnet)

• National Geodetic Survey Division (GPS programs, etc.)

• National Center for Atmospheric Research

• NOAA Home Page

• Unidata Integrated Earth Information Server - Weather, Climate, oceanographic, educational resources

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